MAGA news channel Newsmax’s monopoly lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News was thrown out by a judge on Friday on a technicality.

Florida Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the complaint, filed Wednesday, as a “shotgun pleading” because four of the five counts included allegations from previous counts. The conservative outlet, owned by Christopher Ruddy, has accused Fox News of carrying out “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news.”

Newsmax has until Sept. 11 to refile the lawsuit, but if the amended complaint still contains duplicate allegations, it “may result in dismissal of the case without further notice,” the judge wrote.

“We understand this is just a technical matter and our law firm is refiling,” Newsmax said

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